Week Beginning 11 September 2017

MESSAGES

School photos will take place on Friday 15th.

Please ensure that your child has the correct school uniform. In particular please ensure your child is wearing black shoes. Girls should wear plain white socks and boys should wear black or grey socks. You can review the school’s uniform policy at http://www.nordangliaeducation.com/our-schools/shanghai/puxi/our-students/student-life/our-school-uniform

Please remember to send in and label your child’s snack box and water bottle, as well as a hat during the hot weather.

If for any reason your child is unable to take part in PE, please send a signed message in your child’s communication book. Your child still needs to bring in their PE kit to enable them to participate as a coach, an official or to give feedback. If your child would be swimming, they should bring their normal PE kit.

Registration for the HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) is now open to adults and students. The HSK test will be held on Saturday 11 November 2017. Please see the attached registration form for information. Full documentation and payment for HSK test must be received by Monday 9 October 2017.

LITERACY & MATHS

It is Year 6 STEAM week – please see the THEMED LEARNING section of the newsletter for more information.

THEMED LEARNING

It is Year 6’s STEAM week! We are all very exciting about spending the week in the Da Vinci Centre. The children will be undertaking project based learning and developing their design thinking skills. Associated with our WW2 topic, the challenge will be to create an air-raid shelter in groups. At the end of the week the strength of the shelters will be tested.

KEY VOCABULARY

Fair test, experiment, design thinking, investigate.

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND DIGITAL LITERACY

As a side project during STEAM week, the children will learn about 3D printing using the program, ‘Blender’. How exciting!

KEY VOCABULARY

3D print, examine, materials, commands, program, code.

PSHCE

In PSHCE this term we will be looking at teamwork and collaborative working. We will focus further on fostering new relationships, creating rules and expectations for the group and how to work together successfully.

KEY VOCABULARY

Trust, bravery, commitment

MFL AND MANDARIN

Year 5/6 French – Mr. Bailie
This weekend’s homework will be to continue with the homework grid, choosing one homework task per week.
Next week, the children will continue to revise greetings but progress to responses and understand the convention of kissing on the cheek when greeting.
Key Vocabulary: bonjour, salut, ça va, et toi, au revoir, comme si comme ça, très bien, écoutez, répétez.

Year 5/6 French - Ms Caldwell
This weekend’s homework will be to choose an activity from their project-based learning grid and to revise the days of the week and months of the year.
Next week, the children will be investigating the number system up to 100.

Year 5 / 6 French – Ms De Borger
This week’s homework will be presenting your recording of your self-portrait to your parents.

Next week we will practise telling the time in French. We will make pictures of a regular school day, adding the correct time in French.

Year 5/6 Spanish - Ms Watson
This weekend’s homework will be to have Duolingo and Linguascope installed on their Ipads and to be signed in to both Apps.
Next week, the children will learn the vocabulary that will be used to organise the class e.g. repeat, listen, silence.

Year 5/6 Spanish - Dr Cattel
Homework: learn the numbers 1-50 for next Thursday
Next week: we will be learning how to express likes and dislikes

Year 5/6 Spanish - Ms Martinez
Homework: To prepare a bank of questions or vocabulary to be included in the Kahoots.
Next week the children will create their own Kahoot quizzes on Spanish vocabulary, and test each other on them.

Homework for this weekend: Complete the questionnaire on sports and finish interview according to the questionnaire
Next week we will continue the topic “what’s your favourite sports” and focus on sentence pattern “don’t you think?”

Year 5/ 6 Mandarin MND06L2 Ms He
This weekend’s homework will be to complete the matching exercise on key sentences and word search puzzle on our topic .
Next week, the children will read a story of YCT 2 about a dog going to different places. We will focus on learning how to use pattern “ 我要+……..” and “我也要…….” .

Year 5/ 6 Mandarin MND06L3 Ms Wong

This weekend’s homework will be to practising reading numbers by completing the colouring worksheet.
Next week, the children will be learning the characters: 我 me, 你 you and 他him.